New Book Announcement

[Jianchang Mao]

Dear connectionists,

A new book, "Markov Random Fields: Theory and Application", edited by 
Drs. Rama Chellappa and Anil Jain, has been published by Academic 
Press, Inc. recently. This book contains chapters written by many 
distinguished researchers in the field. It represents the work done
by most of the leading researchers in the world and should be a good 
reference text for engineers, computer scientists, applied statisticians
and mathematicians, and physicists who are interested in the basic 
research issues and state-of-the-art in MRF models. 

The link between Markov random field and neural network models has been
investigated by a number of researchers. The inherent parallel nature 
of the MRF algorithms can be suitably mapped onto an artificial neural
network architecture. Therefore, this book will be a good reference text
for neural network researchers too.

Best,

Jianchang Mao
Computer Science Department
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA